Chemical Reaction Engineering for a Sustainable Future: Addressing New Challenges
and Revisiting Persistent Problems in Energy, Environmental, and Chemicals Research
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Galleria I & II |
| 8:15 - 9:15 AM |
Plenary: "Diversification of the World's Energy Sources and its Challenges for the Chemical Reaction Engineering Profession," Kurt VandenBussche, (UOP LLC) (162) |
| 9:15 - 9:30 AM |
Break |
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Galleria I & II |
Galleria III |
Galleria IV |
| Reactor Engineering: Fundamentals 1 |
Environmental Reaction Engineering for Transportation |
Reaction Engineering of Fossil Fuels: From Production to Refining 1 |
Session Chairs
Rathna Davuluri (ExxonMobil)
Krishnan Sankaranarayanan (ExxonMobil) |
Session Chair
Vemuri Balakotaiah
(University of Houston) |
Session Chairs
Clint Kennedy (ExxonMobil, Ret.)
Theodore Tsotsis (USC) |
| 9:30 - 9:55 AM |
"Non-Isothermal Modeling Studies of the Coupled Lnt-SCR Catalyst," Arun Kota, Dan Luss and Vemuri Balakotaiah (139) |
Keynote: "Lifecycle of Catalysts in Diesel Emission Control Systems," Aleksey Yezerets, Neal Currier, Krishna Kamasamudram, Junhui Li and Ashok Kumar (103) |
“Determining Kinetic Parameters for Nickel Oxide Reduction in Chemical Looping Combusion” Mohammad Quddus, Mohammad Hossain and Hugo de Lasa (140) |
| 9:55 - 10:20 AM |
"Sorption-Enhanced Steam Reforming of Methane in a Gas Solid Countercurrent Flow Reactor with Calcium Oxide as CO2 Acceptor," Ana Obradović, Blaž Likozar and Janez Levec (6) |
"Moving Bed Reducer Modeling for Gaseous Fuel Chemical Looping System," Liang Zeng, Qiang Zhou and Liang-Shih Fan (36) |
| 10:20 - 10:45 AM |
Refreshment Break |
| 10:45 - 11:10 AM |
"Effect of Stirrer Design on the Performance of Rotating Foam Stirred Reactors," Maria Leon, John van der Schaaf, Jaap Schouten and Alexander Nijhuis (13) |
"Short Contact Time Catalytic Plate Diesel Reformer: Detailed Multi-Physics Mathematical Model," Mayur Mundhwa, Rajesh Parmar, Brant Peppley and Chris Thurgood (58) |
Keynote: "Reaction Engineering Challenges in Future Energy and Chemicals," Joseph Powell (2) |
| 11:10 - 11:35 AM |
"The Effect of Particle Size Distribution on Trickle-Bed Reactor Hydrodynamics," Gregory Honda, Philip Gase, Arvind Varma and Daniel Hickman (32) |
"Analysis of Diesel Particulate Filter Regeneration Modes," Mengting Yu, Dan Luss and Vemuri Balakotaiah (67) |
| 11:35 - 12:00 PM |
Keynote: "Chemical Reaction Engineering Challenges in The Refining Industry – The Decade Ahead," Thomas Degnan (156) |
"Highly Durable Catalysts for the Low-Temperature Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides," Thirupathi Boningari, Padmanabha Reddy Ettireddy, Arpad Somogyvari and Panagiotis Smirniotis (157) |
"Iron-Based Chemical Looping Process Development at the Ohio State University," Liang Zeng, Andrew Tong, Mandar Kathe and Liang-Shih Fan (37) |
| 12:00 - 12:25 PM |
"Lean NOx Reduction with H2 and CO Over Dual-Layer LNT-SCR Monolithic Catalysts," Yi Liu, Yang Zheng, Michael Harold and Dan Luss (144) |
"Bimetallic Fe-Ni Oxygen Carriers for Chemical Looping Combustion," Saurabh Bhavsar and Götz Veser (56) |
| 12:25 - 1:30 PM |
Lunch on Own |
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Galleria I & II |
Galleria III |
Galleria IV |
| Reactor Engineering: Fundamentals 2 |
Reaction Engineering:
General 1 |
Reaction Engineering of Fossil Fuels: From Production to Refining 2 |
Session Chairs
Rathna Davuluri (ExxonMobil)
Krishnan Sankaranarayanan (ExxonMobil) |
Session Chairs
William Epling (University of Houston)
Peter Smirniotis (University of Cincinnati) |
Session Chair
Theodore Tsotsis (USC) |
| 1:30 - 1:55 PM |
"Closure Model for Multiphase Enthalpy Transfer Associated with Mass Transfer," Jordan Musser, Madhava Syamlal, Mehrdad Shahnam, Janine Carney and David Huckaby (48) |
Keynote: "Role of Nitrite and Nitrate Species in Lean NOx Control Catalysis," Pio Forzatti (158) |
"A Comparative Study on Steam and Oxidative Steam Reforming of Methane with Noble Metal Catalysts," Um-E-Salma Amjad, Camilla Galletti, Antonio Vita, Lidia Pino and Stefania Specchia (108) |
| 1:55 - 2:20 PM |
"Computational Analysis of the Reacting Flow in the Catalyst Coating of a Micro-Structured Reformer using a Multi-Scale Modeling Approach," Alireza Tanhatan Naseri, Brant Peppley and Jon Pharoah (107) |
"A Radial Microchannel Reactor (RMR) Provides Breakthroughs in Efficient Hydrogen Production from Natural Gas" Peter Bossard, Jacob Mettes, Luis Breziner and Benjamin Wilhite (116) |
| 2:20 - 2:45 PM |
"Prediction of Mass Transfer Coefficients in a Slurry Bubble Column Based on the Geometrical Characteristics of Bubbles," Stoyan Nedeltchev, Krishna Nigam and Adrian Schumpe (138) |
“A Novel Approach to the Rational Design of Zeolite Catalysts” Alexandra Lupulescu, Manjesh Kumar, and Jeffrey Rimer (168) |
"Trends in Thiophene Hydrodesulfurization Activity of Metal-Sulfide Catalysts" Lars C. Grabow, Poul G. Moses, Berit Hinnemann, Henrik Topsøe, and J. K. Nørskov (171) |
| 2:45 - 3:10 PM |
Refreshment Break |
| 3:10 - 3:35 PM |
"Successful Scale-Up of an Industrial Trickle Bed Hydrogenation using Laboratory Reactor Data," Daniel Hickman, Michael Holbrook, Samuel Mistretta and Steve Rozeveld (1) |
"Modeling and Simulation of Layered Lean Nox Trap and Selective Catalytic Reduction Monolithic Catalysts," Bijesh Shakya, Michael Harold and Vemuri Balakotaiah (81) |
Keynote: "Oil Production by In-Situ Combustion: An Interesting Example of a Large-Scale, Multi-Phase, Multifunctional Heterogeneous Reactor," Zhenshuo Liu, Kristian Jessen and Theodore Tsotsis (82) |
| 3:35 - 4:00 PM |
"A New Approach to Fixed Bed Radial Heat Transfer using Velocity Fields From Cfd Simulations," Mohsen Behnam, Anthony Dixon, Michiel Nijemeisland and Hugh Stitt (8) |
"Countercurrent Liquid-Liquid Flow in a High-Shear High-Gravity Extractor," Frans Visscher, Shima Saffarionpour, Mart De Croon, John Van der Schaaf and Jaap Schouten (33) |
| 4:00 - 4:25 PM |
"Optimal Active Catalyst and Inert Distribution in Catalytic Fixed Bed Reactors: Ortho-Xylene Oxidation," Yisu Nie, Paul Witt, Anshul Agarwal and Lorenz Biegler (26) |
"Optimal Experiment Design For Model Discrimination in Incremental Model Identification," Nimet Kerimoglu, Adel Mhamdi and Wolfgang Marquardt (96) |
"Down-Hole Catalytic Upgrading of Heavy Oil and Bitumen to Meet Tomorrow’s Energy Needs: The Thai-Capri Process," Abarasi Hart, Gary Leeke, Malcolm Greaves and Joseph Wood (11) |
| 4:30 - 6:30 PM |
Poster Session (with Refreshments)
(Woodway II - 4th Level) |
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